The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has struck down a Trump-era executive order that sought to suspend access to asylum at the southern border, holding that the president cannot use a proclamation to override the asylum process Congress created in the Immigration and Nationality Act.
The ruling is significant because it reinforces a basic separation-of-powers principle in…
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The new offering is designed to provide an all-in-one platform for scheduling and hosting depositions, preparing and presenting exhibits, and creating transcripts.
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“The rules haven’t really changed, but we’re just having trouble following them when the output of some AI is so seductively good, said Adams & Reese legal ethics expert Lucian Pera. “And it’s hard. It’s hard to convince people to do it.
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The company’s QaECTER model can retrieve patent data when users use patent-specific language in their search queries.
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As organizations and employees (including, increasingly, legal departments) expand their use of generative AI tools, they may unwittingly be creating a new and largely unexamined category of potentially discoverable information.
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Modern in-house legal teams operate as fast%E2%80%91moving service partners, expected to deliver rapid, risk%E2%80%91calibrated answers to business leaders who don’t want complexity, just certainty. Their ability to meet that demand depends not only on legal judgment but on choosing tools and partners they can genuinely trust.
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The Ninth Circuit’s April 20, 2026 decision in docket No. 23-2527 offers a useful reminder that appellate outcomes often turn as much on procedure and standards of review as on the underlying merits. In an opinion by Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr., the court addressed a civil appeal and clarified how federal appellate courts will evaluate the issues preserved below,…
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The prevailing narrative I hear in the legal world is that Claude is the “most human” of the LLMs and, especially, a nuanced, sophisticated writer. When I report that the system has begun to fail my specific research protocols, the common response is a suggestion that I am simply using the wrong version and a disbelief that I am using…
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The resulting gap between what law schools teach and what law firms expect is no longer merely an inconvenience; it is a professional hazard.
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The digital ticker at the bottom of my workspace doesn’t just track price action anymore; it tracks the wild whacky trends of geopolitics.
Listening to George Walker and Shelly Banjo discuss the state of play, I am struck by the paradox of our current era. We are living through a period of “Economic Antifragility,” where the underlying machinery of the…
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For the lawyers and other legal professionals who use Westlaw and LexisNexis every day, these platforms are familiar tools of the trade – essential systems for finding case law, checking citations and getting practical guidance.
But behind those familiar research services is a less-familiar story. The same two corporate parents that dominate legal research have, since the early 2000s, built…
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Gavel, the Los Angeles-based legal AI company, today announced the launch of Gavel Exec for Web, a browser-based expansion of its AI contract review and drafting product that until now has lived primarily as an add-in inside Microsoft Word.
“With Gavel Exec for Web, lawyers can chat with an AI purpose-built for legal work, benchmark documents against market standards…
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Questel, an intellectual property software and services company headquartered in Paris, has released QaECTER, a new AI model designed specifically for semantic patent retrieval.
The company says the model outperforms competing systems, including those that are significantly larger, across every query type, technology domain and jurisdiction tested.
QaECTER is the product of Questel’s in-house AI Lab, which developed…
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“Hey, publisher, I have an idea for a book. It’s called ‘Law Practice Technology.’” Not my most creative pitch, I will confess. It took more than that but I will admit to a certain amount of uncertainty when I decided to see if I could find a publisher for a new book. I had written an…
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A federal judge in Manhattan has sharply narrowed one of the most closely watched criminal cases in the country, ruling that prosecutors cannot pursue the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in connection with the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Judge Margaret Garnett of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the murder count that…
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